Henning Oldekop

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Ernst Adalbert Henning Oldekop (born July 24, 1846 in Hanover , † February 19, 1923 in Kiel ) was a German landowner and topographer .

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Henning Oldekop was a son of Karl Georg Theodor Oldekop (* February 24, 1811 in Hanover; † December 16, 1894 ibid) and his wife Marie Henriette Auguste Agnese, nee Wächter (* December 25, 1815 - August 31, 1862 in Kreuzlingen ). His father was a lawyer and worked as a government official in the Hanoverian War Ministry.

From 1852 Oldekop attended a higher middle school and then a lyceum in Hanover. On the instructions of his father, he spent the school year 1862/63 in a boarding school in Chateaux Lancy near Geneva , where he was supposed to recover health. Two of his brothers died of consumption , which he himself threatened to develop. Therefore he left the school in 1863 in the Obersekunda and traveled as a midshipman with the "Malabar" from London to Calcutta for therapeutic reasons . At the end of June 1864, he was fully recovered and returned to Hanover, where he refrained from going to school again because he was worried that he would fall ill again. Instead, he wanted to learn a trade where he could often be in the fresh air. Since he did not want to become a seaman, after long deliberations he decided to train in agriculture.

After two years of training in Marienstein near Nörten , Oldekop worked as a trainee in agriculture in Hüpede . In 1867/68 he served as a one-year volunteer with a Hanoverian Uhlan regiment. He then did another traineeship in Königshorst and dealt in particular with the brewing industry. In the summer semester of 1869 and in the winter semester of 1869/70 he took part in agricultural science courses at the University of Göttingen. From Easter 1870 he attended the agricultural college in Halle, where he was drafted as a soldier for the Franco-German War in July of the same year . Sick of jaundice, he did not join the army until mid-August. In October 1870 he came to a regiment in France and fell ill with rheumatism. Therefore, his time in the military ended in early December of the same year. Despite this short time in the army, he later joined the comrades-in-arms club from 1870/71.

After a cure in Aachen , Oldekop worked as a trainee in an administrative position in Bollbrügge from the spring of 1871 . He then visited several estates in Schleswig-Holstein, where his uncle Ludwig Wyneken already lived. In 1872 he acquired the nearly 240 hectare Grünhorst estate near Sehestedt , for which he had to pay 107,000 thalers Prussian courant. He took out a loan for two thirds of the purchase price, the annual repayment installments of which his father and a close relative helped finance. He therefore had financial problems right from the start, while agriculture was developing poorly at the same time. In 1879/80 he optimized several processes on the farm. He stopped sheep farming and expanded cattle breeding, built an artesian well and ice cellar, with his father again having to support him financially. His father considered him in his will to secure the estate as far as possible. Because of the problems Oldekop considered in 1883 to part with the estate. Since the purchase price would not have been high, he refrained from doing so.

In 1884 Oldekop joined the “Agricultural Association in the Canal” and a little later took over the office of treasurer. In February 1885 he gave a lecture at the General Assembly “On the currency question”. His lecture appeared in the Hannoversche Land- und Forstwirtschaftliche Zeitung. The Conservative Party, which his uncle had represented in the Landtag from 1870 to 1876, wanted to win him over as a candidate for the elections to the House of Representatives of the Prussian Landtag in the summer of 1885. After lengthy deliberations, Oldekop did not run due to his family and property relationships, but filled several other offices: he took over the chairmanship of the agricultural district association, was involved as a shop steward for the agricultural trade associations, was district commissioner for the Schleswig-Holstein landscape and deputy head of office. From early 1900 to spring 1902 he was elected landscape councilor for the landscape.

In March 1902, Oldekop separated from Gut Grünhorst, which Edgar Schröfer acquired from Hamburg. He then moved to Kiel and worked as a reindeer with Schleswig-Holstein and its inhabitants. He wrote an extensive, three-volume topography that included Schleswig in 1906 and Holstein in 1908 with Lübeck and Lauenburg. While Hermann Biernatzki or Johannes von Schröder proceeded alphabetically in comparable work for each part of the country, Oldekop decided on a structure according to urban and rural districts. Oldekop wrote in a foreword that he wanted to prevent redundancies. The real reason may have been that he created self-contained parts that could be paginated, edited and printed individually. This way of working seemed advantageous, since Oldekop mostly used representations of the districts that had written district administrators and mayors. He himself only edited these texts and put them together in a joint work.

Oldekop himself wrote introductions for the topographies in which he gave overviews of the history, geography and economy of the parts of the country. He also wrote Biernatzki's and Schröder's résumés. So he was able to realize his plans quickly. In doing so, he continued and updated out-of-print works by other authors, only copying the existing texts on the historical-topographical topics and not expanding them. Its topography developed into a standard work on the history of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1974 and 1975 largely unchanged new editions of these books were published.

In Kiel, Oldekop took on several honorary posts: from 1911 he was part of the management of the Agricultural Credit Association for the Province of Schleswig-Holstein, in which he was initially a deputy member and from 1919 second director. From 1915 until the end of his life he worked on the committee of the Heidekulturverein for Schleswig-Holstein. In 1905 he joined the “Historische Landeshalle” association and was a member of its board from 1913 for several years. He donated several exhibits to the association.

Oldekop died after a short, serious illness.

family

On May 29, 1876, Oldekop married on Uhlenhorst Karoline Christine Marie Grotkopp-Davidsen, née Grotkopp (born March 4, 1855 at Gut Uhlenhorst near Dänischhagen , † December 11, 1930 in Kiel). She was a daughter of the wheelwright Claus Grotkopp (born May 29, 1825 in Tüttendorf ) and his wife Catharina, née Süverkrüpp (born June 12, 1831 in Neudorf near Gettorf ). Karoline Grotkopp-Davidsen grew up as a foster daughter with her childless uncle Magnus Davidsen and therefore had a double name.

Oldekop's marriage resulted in three daughters and three sons, including the admiral of the Imperial Navy Iwan Oldekop (1878–1942).

Works

literature

  • Bettina Reichert: Oldenkop, Henning . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pages 304-306.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Bettina Reichert: Oldenkop, Henning , page 304.
  2. ↑ Bettina Reichert: Oldenkop, Henning , pages 304–305.
  3. ↑ Bettina Reichert: Oldenkop, Henning , page 305.
  4. ^ Bettina Reichert: Oldenkop, Henning . Pages 305–306.
  5. ↑ a b Bettina Reichert ,: Oldenkop, Henning , page 306.
personal data
SURNAME Oldekop, Henning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oldekop, Ernst Adelbert Henning (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner and topographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1923
Place of death Kiel